Wednesday, December 5, 2012

I will never understand this blog machine. Sometimes it will let you post text above the painting and sometimes it want. Oh well! that is just what you have to put up with. This painting is 12x12 inches done in one day at Amy Imler's studio. I like it.

Saturday, September 22, 2012

This painting shows how to use cool colors in a small watercolor. I painted the scene this weekend as a painting showing how a limited palette and cool colors work together. I plan to use this painting to show my watercolor classes how to pant with a limited palette and cool colors. I hope they get it.

The view shown here is from Mount Holly cemetery located near downtown in Little Rock. Mount Holly is a famous historic cemetery with graves containing the remains of many important historic Little Rock figures. I did a paint out at the cemetery in the spring on a gray day. I was pleased with the painting I did in a slow drizzle. I will post the painting later when I have time.

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

This one got in the Mid-Southern Watercolor Society Annual Exhibition. How about that, I am sure I was just a lucky guy. The watercolor painting is experimental in nature using color, shapes, and value change. The subjects were taken from my experiences at La Romita School of Art in Turni, Italy. One more selected painting in the MSW annual exhibition in 2013 and I will become a signature member of the Society.

Tom Herrin at a Glance

**GRAND KIDS**
I'm an artist working in watercolor, acrylic, pastel and oil. I just turned the ripe old age of 77 but think of myself as a much younger person. Each week I attend a figure and life drawing session with a group of artist about my age. I also paint weekly at Amy Imler's studio in North Little Rock developing my ability to paint abstract paintings. I am President of the Mid-Southern Watercolor Society. It is my goal to obtain signature status before too much longer. My wife and I live in a close-in neighborhood of this really great city. My Son Michael lives near here in Mayflower, Arkansas; Richard,in Tennessee; and Will, in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Our oldest son Tom passed away two years ago and now resides in Heaven. We miss him very much.